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  • The World You’ll Come to Know
    1 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    I was talking to my son yesterday about the economy and politics in general. He’s twenty-three, self-employed, and ambitious. Even as a child he was ambitious. “Dad,” he’d say, “can I borrow the lawnmower?” Then he’d come back at sundown with $150.00. He never cared for cartoons, video games, or school but his one weakness was the Three Stooges, the originals with Curly not Shemp. He was a purist and Shemp was no Curly, just as Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy.
    But as we (…)

  • TOI columnist at pity
    19 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    what a games of destiny!i was driving home at about 8 oclock at night.i stop my car at red light. suddenly an old woman hand come from window to ask me food.her hair were all white and dirty.her sarree was torn from different places. she didnt take bath for long time and smelling. being a sympathy for her i gave her my blanket lying in my car and some money for food. she was shobha dey,once columnist of TOI newspaper who always make mockery of poor and poverty. look! where god landed her (…)

  • Half the City’s Poor have been permanently displaced (CounterPunch)
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
    The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families, is down 46% from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports before Katrina (…)

  • It’s Time To Develop Community Volunteer Pools -
    28 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s Time To Develop Community Volunteer Pools -
    "Foreclosures Prompt Cities to Make Plea for Aid : The United States Conference of Mayors ( usmayors.org ) As more than 250 mayors , agreed that the collapse of the subprime market had left a growing problem of vacant houses, depressed property values, tighter credit, and a need to cut services to close municipal budget gaps. "
    With news like this, and many other stories threatening the possibility of a global Depression, (Based on a (…)

  • Video: "Shanty Town" - The first tent city in the US after the housing burst
    27 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: "Shanty Town" - The first tent city in the US after the housing bubble burst
    Here are some videos of a tent city / shanty town that has popped up in the suburbs of Southern California. I’ve never seen anything like this in America since the great depression.
    – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeH...

  • "The Price of Sugar": The enslavement of Haïtian Workers
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Price of Sugar" (thepriceofsugar.com) follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he’s warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade.
    On an island (…)

  • It’s Time for the Banks to Face the Hangman
    19 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s Time for the Banks to Face the Hangman by Mike Whitney
    October 19th, 2007 How can one defend a system that creates wealth by making the majority poor?
    – Henry C. K. Liu
    Officials in the Treasury Department — working with their colleagues at Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America — have concocted a scheme to rescue the banks from their massive losses in mortgage-backed securities. The group is planning to set up a $100 billion emergency fund that will purchase non-performing (…)

  • Put moratorium on foreclosures, state consumer coalition advises
    22 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Put moratorium on foreclosures, state consumer coalition advises
    By Steve Lawrence
    August 22, 2007
    SACRAMENTO – Consumer advocates yesterday called for a moratorium on home foreclosures, warning that California is facing a tidal wave of foreclosures over the next year as more homeowners are hit with payment increases brought on by subprime loans and risky mortgages.
    “The curve is really starting to go up,” said Alan Fisher, executive director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, (…)

  • Severe Poverty in the UK
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Severe Poverty in the UK 19 Jun 2007 09:00:00 GMT
    Source: International Save the Children Alliance
    Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author’s alone.
    In the week before Brown becomes PM a new report reveals that UK families in severe poverty live on average of £7000 a year
    A new report released today reveals the shocking fact that there are nearly 1.5 million children living in (…)

  • Oh, The Outrage! A Country Falling Apart.
    19 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everywhere you look the infrastructure, once sound, well built and highly functional...is falling apart at the seams.
    Each night hundreds of thousands of children go to be hungry, and the numbers of poor and suffering swell with each passing day.
    There are severe air quality problems throughout the country, and new diseases seem to pop up each week! Reports keep flooding into the government agencies about outbreaks of plague and other serious life threatening illnesses.
    Gas prices (…)